Tarot "Predictions" 2012

Remember those 'fortune tellers' that kids fold out of paper? That's about the level this is at...just tongue in cheek fun...on one hand. On the other, if we collectively stop and think, if we collectively choose more wisely, then together we can create a better future, no matter what psychics "predict" here at the new year. Yet it is a fun game we all play at this time of year.

As you know from the lack of posts lately, I've been on blogcation from cyberspace. I haven't read any of my favorite blogs or other yearly predictions. I did see a tweet from one of my favorite mediums and astrologers....Joy Star....that she has posted her predictions with a particular eye toward numerology and astrology. Numerology and astrology are not my strong points, so if you are any smidge interested in those things please feel free to check out  www.psychicjoystar.wordpress.com

For me, its all tarot. What I'll do is what I call my "four seasons" reading. Each of 4 cards represents each of the upcoming four seasons to give a look ahead at the coming year. It can start at any time of year...it doesn't have to be at New Years.

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Now that the business is done, back to the fun. This reading with be done with the idea that it will apply globally, but keep in mind I'm an east coast American, so I probably will be a bit more dialed into the path and energy here in the U.S.A. But keeping as wide of a focus as possible, as I shuffled the cards, the question in mind was "show me truth for 2012".

Being at the beginning of winter, the first card will relate to winter...now through roughly mid-March or early April. The winter card is the 9 of wands. This has to do with acceptance. I always remind everyone when this card turns up, that there is a difference between "acceptance" and "acquiescence". It is the difference between taking a pragmatic, realistic approach to what is happening and giving up, giving in, blaming others and hiding from the truth.

Wands have to do with our inner, individual journey and personal growth.

When I apply the 9 of wands to a general, collective look...my mind is drawn immediately to American politics...to politics of any democracy.  Wands is internal, individual...the nine is accepting the reality of things-as-they-are. The message here is for each individual to trust their own evaluation of reality, of things as they are here and now...DISREGARDING THE PROPAGANDA AND "MAINSTREAM PARTY LINE".  Trust your own evaluation of the situation, accept it is what it is, not necessarily what you want it to be...and then act and vote accordingly.

Here is where my personal bias shines bright...Republicans have been lying through their teeth and out their backside...look at the facts, look at the data, accept the reality of things as they actually have happened over the past 10-12 years. See and accept reality...not the story and spin. Whether it matches your hoped-for reality or not. In spite of any get-Obama sentiment you might have, look at the historical facts and numbers.

This card is encouraging all of us to ACCEPT THE FACTS of our situation and deal with it pragmatically in a realistic, practical sort of way over the next several months, at least.

SPRING, March through May basically has drawn the "Wheel" card. The sense I have of this card is twofold...first that things will change because of the pragmatism of the winter season....we collectively take that cold, hard look at the way things are, and begin to act, feel and believe differently because of that.  The other is the momentum caused because of that...first we 'hike up our skirts' and MAKE things better, then further change is brought about because of that initial action causing a chain-reaction of optimism. Things finally start to change for the better and we get a collective glimpse of the light at the end of the tunnel...the tunnel being both the economic concerns that have been going on since 2008...and in general spirit, spiritual growth, a sort of brightening of the collective spiritual consciousness as we shake ourselves free of the propaganda and mental shackles . The phrase "THE AGE OF THE FREETHINKERS BEGINS" comes to mind. I deeply hope this is true. It is my wish that all people be free from suffering, both physical problems and mental / emotional oppression.

Summer is the Tower card. It generally means chaos, but the feeling with this card continues in the mental - internal- philosophical - perception tone set by the first wands card. I don't see it as any sort of uprising or physical chaos. My sense of it is more an upset of the old guard of thinking, rather than outright war and conflict. The idea of the occupation of Iraq finally ending, and the potential for drawdowns inAfghanistan begin to take root in the world psyche, and peace again becomes at least a viable IDEA. This throws the old-school 'war hawks' off their guard. The shift toward peaceful freethinking make those with the fundamentalist mindset feel like the world is in chaos, or even coming to an end. 2012 isn't the end of the world...it is the beginning of the end of certain ways of looking at the world.  "NEW AGE" comes to mind...not so much the 'woo woo' spirituality we know from the 70s and 80s, but a true new age, another renaissance that to some is the beginning of something wonderful...to others, it seems chaos, mayhem, disaster.

Either way, spring and summer are dynamic, energetic, full of change. The tower card reminds us that when things seem chaotic, and when we feel like we have lost our bearings in an unpredictable, changing, chaotic world...perspective is the solution. Climb the tower, get the overview...FIND THE BIG PICTURE TO FIND THE SOLUTION. This will be the lesson and tenor of the summer.

Fall is calmer...the Page of Cups. It has to do with reconciling old thoughts, with the new thoughts, and finding balance. It has to do with soothing the chaos that change has brought over the spring and summer. There is still a thread of the reality-pragmatic approach. This card has to do with "dealing with demons"...we pay for past mistakes, but that allows us to let them go and move on. Political chickens come home to roost in U.S. elections. Those who believe in the 'end of the world' notions become nostalgic, think of what they might loose....a "bucket list" mentality for some, bittersweet nostalgia for others. For the newly freed freethinkers, there is greater compassion for those on different paths. Maybe a little more unity as we move past the elections and move into the next holiday season.

Moving away from the cards to general impressions: Still politically-minded, I get the mental image of a U.S. map, no state lines, just the national outline, filling with blue from the west to mid-west, some in the northeast, but the southeast being white, not red as is usual with the news graphics. When I look at that white, southeast region I get the words "empty" "crumbling" "old".

I see buttercups...and feel it is related to spring. Yellow, golden tones...often associated with wealth and money luck, but flowers may have more to do with spiritual renewal than physical wealth.

There is a feeling of quiet strength. Growing calm after the summer. Calm knowing, with a tinge of "I told you so".

I can't say for sure, but when I turn my mind to the natural world...it feels quiet. There is a sense of waiting and listening, as if Earth is waiting to see if we will act to heal, or continue to be mindlessly destructive. It is my wish that we all act to be ecologically responsible....green green greenie green green...it is the path to life for Nature and humans alike.  As the children who have been raised to be more ecologically aware over the past decade or so come of age, ecological protection, renewable energy, green jobs becomes easier, more natural, presumed, matter of course...not the hair tearing debate that some have made it out to be in the past....again that idea of the old guard falling into chaos, while a calmer, more pragmatic, truth-seeing, spiritual (not dogmatic or religious) generation comes forward.

It is the end of the world...for those who hate. May it be so.

Feels like a quiet year externally...with much energy internally, with change and chaos in the individual and the collective psyche more than anything.

Was watching the Rose parade earlier I think their theme captures the tone and direction of 2012 perfectly...Imagine.

What we imagine, hope and work for can be made manifest, if we stay focused on our better and compassionate nature.  That is where the "zone" will be.  Those that hold on to the past, embrace divisive, or bigoted ideas are in for a rough year, with questioning and doubt and chaos as old followers awaken to a new way.

Imagine a better place, and act to make it true. Deal with the old demons so they can be let go to make room for a kinder way of thinking.

May this truly be the year that the world of hate, division, bigotry, and violence comes to an end. There is a world of truth and compassion waiting to take its place.

Wishing you a happy, healthy, abundant, magical, imagination filled new year!

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Today's Tarot - The Devil

The Devil:

 Hiding in the light because you are afraid of the dark does not make the darkness go away.

Darkness is as much a part of life and nature as light. Fear and anger make the darkness stronger, puts things out of balance. George Lucas was right..."fear and anger lead to the dark side".  The balance comes by seeing the shadow as part of the light, as part of the whole.

We can't see in total darkness, but by the same token, we can't see at all if our eyes are dazzled by light alone...we need contrast and shadow to see well. Light and dark together in balance is the way of nature. It is a hint for how things work philosophically as well.

Balance also comes by taking light to the darkness. Courage and compassion balance fear and anger. If we face fear with courage, the devil disappears.

The more pious and fundamentalist we are, the more absolute and powerful evil must be to strike a universal balance. If we admit there is a little light in the dark, a little dark in the light, then the balance is easier, just a little more loving toward everyone. If we admit there is a little darkness, a little or the "devil" inside human existence (as Halloween and Dia Del Los Muertos reminds us).

When we remove fear and fundamentalist piety, the devil is diminished. Instead of powerful and mysterious, the devil becomes mundane and commonplace - like dark woods on a bright summer day. Neither good nor bad, it simply is. For some, such darkness is cooling respite from summer heat. For others, the darkness of the woods is a source of fear and the unknown.

What the Devil tarot card teaches is largely governed by the emotion we bring to it, rather than anything it actually IS. For some it sparks a very deep visceral fear. For others, it is just "devilish mischief". 

Here is where I might make you mad...this is the controversial part, so it is up to you to keep reading or not.

I don't like to talk about religion or politics because these topics are divisive in the extreme. The only time I "go there" is if I feel really compelled by intuition or "spirit" or the universe or however you look at such things.

When this card turned up, the 2011 new year's reading came strongly to mind. You can read the full 2011 New Years post HERE.

Here is the part that the Devil card brings to mind:

I get the feeling that things will go well for the Obama adminstration: people will begin to see what he has done and again see what is possible “he will have earned his Nobel prize” is the feeling. Americans, real, grass roots population will rally behind him…”have his back” against dark forces…more of a domestic threat than international issues. There is a black way, a dark and wrong possible future…only the voices of ordinary people can push it back, and choose the brighter way. “Don’t be fooled again” is the message.

As I see it, the dark way is the Republicans. Vote them back into Congress or the White House, and we are going to be lead down the primrose path...again. "Ordinary people" may be Occupy Wall Street, or it just might be your average voter. If you like how things are now, send a thank you note to the Republicans who have been manipulating and making noise since 1998, probably longer. If you want something better...vote for Democrats, Independents, Green Party...anyone else you think is qualified to do the job. The Republicans voted in the House of Representatives two days ago to reaffirm the "In God We Trust" motto ...when only a short time ago the Republicans refused to commend the military involved with Bin Laden mission because they wouldn't entertain "frivolous" or ceremonial issues.

After hearing about that vote, there was no doubt in my mind what the dark path in the reading was talking about. The Devil here is clear. Rather than facing them with fear, allowing ourselves to be bullied, we must use the brightest light of our democracy...our vote.

On a lighter note...

that celebrity wedding...don't know where the red color comes in, but sure sounds like that Kim Kardashian thing. If you like that kind of thing.

There were some more tarballs on the gulf coast this summer.

There was a low oxygen thing killing sardines near California.

That was fun...it always surprises me when those new-years semi-predictive, just for fun readings actually "come true". Who knew?

Be brave, vote for courage, vote for compassion, your vote can diminish the Devil. 

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DO something!

It's November. We are moving from Halloween to elections. Politics are way more scary than ghosts and goblins if you ask me. I worries me that some people might actually get a vote, much less win office.

Here are a few favorite quotes to help get through the news cycle:

"Lead, Follow or get out of the way"...source unknown, some attribute to Thomas Paine

"Actions speak louder than words, but not nearly as often" ...Mark Twain

"For evil to flourish, it only requires that good men do nothing"...variously attributed to Simon Weisnethal, Thomas Jefferson, and John F. Kennedy

If you like the way things are, send a thank you note. If you want something better for yourself and your children, VOTE.

Tarot reading: Four Seasons for America

People who write like to do just that...when you have a blog, sometimes it is hard not to rant and opine on any old thing that gets your hackles up.

I know I push the envelope when it comes to one of the two topics that inevitably lead to somebody getting disgruntled or annoyed to one extent or another. I 'go there' with religion. Won't do it with politics too, that's be nuts!

So I won't give my opinion of the mid-term elections in the U.S.

But I would like to experiment with this. I've heard of astrologers and the like who do readings for nations, and celebrities. While I personally think it is wrong to read someone without their direct consent, what about a collective group as large as a country? I don't know if it is even possible to do from a Tarot point of view, like it is in astrology. I've heard some astrologers cast charts etc based on the date that a city was incorporated or a business started.

So this is just experimental, no promises, just out of curiosity to see what cards turn up. Not to mention a dead giveaway of my political leanings. It might be more of that than an actual reading for the direction of the country-at-large...but hey, Tarot readers need to vent / rant / opine as much as any blogger, eh?

Winter...knight of cups...suffiency

"Enough"...a period of little change...no further slippage, but not prosperous either. Knight suggests action. It feels grassroots. The action is drawn from the everyman, to make do, to get by with nothing but inaction if not outright obstacles. Direction of the country caters to the few, while the rest show strength, resilience.

Spring...3 of swords...corruption

Corruption is recognized more, seen more, but not corrected

Summer...The Emperor...Illimitable Ability

Skilled leaders...not just one, but a small few...step in to re-set direction and effect a positive change that gives heart to the public that feels abandoned.

Fall...3 of cups...merriment...

A feeling of some hope and optimism returns. A feeling of relief as a crisis ends

3 and a second three...there is a feeling that March and June will be important shifts in energy.

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5 of swords

5 of Swords: 5 speaks of the realm of mind, swords with our relationship with society. Beware miscalculation or misjudgement...don't play politics with emotion or reflex. Use clear-headed reason to avoid problems.

Baihu
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